Exhibitions

• January 30, 2018

  Before the Erebus

  By: Graham Iddon

  
  

  

  Now you might wonder just how a museum specializing in economics and currency expects to interpret the history of a legendary arctic explorer—through money, of course.

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• January 3, 2018

  Decoding E-Money Is Here

  By: Graham Iddon

  
  

  

  Now that we are again back in our house, we’ve invited one of our wandering exhibitions home for a visit: Decoding E-Money.

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• September 15, 2016

  Decoding E-Money III: It’s hitting the road

  By: Graham Iddon

  
  

  

  So what’s Decoding E-money all about? If you aren’t one of our several ardent followers (Hi Mom), a brief description is in order. It’s about the present and the future of money.

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• August 30, 2016

  Gold Rush! and Mining the Miners

  By: Graham Iddon

  
  

  

  Mining the Miners is our third temporary exhibition at the CMH (we reopen in 2017) and it is indeed about the Klondike gold rush. It’s always nice to be able to dovetail our exhibits with those of our host.

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• March 15, 2016

  Decoding E-Money II

  By: Graham Iddon

  
  

  

  This has been an extremely challenging exhibition to develop. We are taking, for us, the unprecedented step of interpreting something that is not only current but continually changing.

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• November 30, 2015

  Involving the Visitor

  

  A title for this exhibition eluded us well into the development process. By introducing IPOP theory, we had to take ourselves back to the very basics of what the exhibition is about, what its messages are.

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• August 5, 2015

  Swindle! Canadian Phantom Banks

  By: Graham Iddon

  
  

  

  In exchange for pizza and a day out of the office, several Bank employees were persuaded to dress up in period costumes and re-enact three key moments from the history of this shady “bank”.

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• April 6, 2015

  The Adventure of Exhibit Planning IX

  By: Graham Iddon

  
  

  

  Our little team from the Museum stood in the education space of the Sherbrooke Nature and Science Museum on a chill November morning while the exhibition technicians assembled our finished exhibition. Yes, finished.

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• March 11, 2015

  An Exhibition Installation

  By: Graham Iddon

  
  

  

  You could work in the exhibition-fabrication business all your life and still run into things you wouldn’t expect: a never-ending series of “uh-ohs.” It’s one of the things that makes the job so interesting and demands a high level of creative problem-solving skills…

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• November 6, 2014

  The Adventure of Exhibit Planning VI

  By: Graham Iddon

  
  

  

  This is not the time for ‘nay sayers’. Basically, we planned a luxury car knowing that when all was said and done, it was going to be a very nice family sedan (maybe with the big engine?).

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